Most if not all people now and throughout antiquity have worshipped some entity. "Primitive man feared all manifestations of power; he worshiped every natural phenomenon he could not comprehend. The observation of powerful natural forces, such as storms, floods, earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, fire, heat, and cold, greatly impressed the expanding mind of man. The inexplicable things of life are still termed 'acts of God' and 'mysterious dispensations of Providence'." (www.urantia.org/en/urantia-book-standardized/paper-85-origins-worship)
The Egyptians had Ra, their sun god and Osiris, the god of the underworld, while Babylon, Greece and Rome worshipped mythological gods. Therefore, there must be something within man to cause him to desire to pay homage or worship some entity.
Micah wrote to the Children of Israel asking "With what shall I come before the Lord?" and then gave several possibilities in the form of other questions. He concluded "He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" (Micah 6:8 NKJV)
To Satan, Jesus referring to Deuteronomy, stated "'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only' and to some of the tradition keeping Pharisees Jesus quoted Isaiah 29:13: 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.'" (Matthew 4:10 & 15:8-9 NIV) Since Jesus desires heart praise and adoration, an understanding of the heart is required.
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